The Constitutional Court ruled that hospitals cannot force transfusions refused for religious reasons, even in cases of “extreme urgency”.
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Supreme Court of Canada: Secular Courts Cannot Review Expulsions of Church Members
In a case involving the Ethiopian Coptic Court, Canadian Justices ruled that a precedent concerning the Jehovah’s Witnesses has general value.
France: “All the World Envies Us for the MIVILUDES”
The revamped anti-cult mission tries again to export its defamation of Jehovah’s Witnesses and other religious organizations internationally.
FECRIS Sentenced in Germany for Defaming Jehovah’s Witnesses
A landmark decision by the District Court of Hamburg found the anti-cult federation guilty of 18 counts of untrue factual allegations.
France’s Strange War Against the Jehovah’s Witnesses
A report submitted to the UN Human Rights Committee details 25 years of discrimination and harassment against Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Excommunication: Looking for a Balance of Interests Between Opposite Freedoms
The Ghent Court decision declaring shunning as practiced by Jehovah’s Witnesses illegal ignores European and Belgian precedents, and is clearly wrong.
The Ghent Jehovah’s Witness Decision: Anomaly or a New Reality?
In an unprecedented ruling, judges turned the long-standing interpretation of articles 9, 10, 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights on its head.
Jehovah’s Witnesses: Disfellowshipping, Shunning, and the Ghent Ruling
Many do not understand how shunning exactly works. Erroneous representations of the practice may have influenced the Ghent judges.
Operation North: When Stalin Deported the Jehovah’s Witnesses
Seventy years ago, 9,793 believers were taken from their homes in Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and sent to Siberia.
Jehovah’s Witnesses: How the Ghent Decision Subverted the Idea of Liberty
Declaring that shunning “apostates” is a crime implies accepting the ideology that surrendering our freedom to an organization is always suspicious.